Computers

FCC chairman Tom Wheeler speaking at the 2015 TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

Thanks to the FCC, You Might Soon Have More Control Over Your Personal Data

Regulators are taking on internet service providers over targeted ads

Virtual Reality is Coming to Real-Life Rollercoasters

Soar with Superman or pilot an alien-fighting jet

She knows where this photo was taken—and so might a new neural network.

Google's New A.I. Can Tell Exactly Where a Photo Was Taken

A new neural network is better than humans at sussing out the location of a picture

What the All Writs Act of 1789 Has to Do With the iPhone

How a law signed by George Washington is being applied to Apple

Steve Wozniak's Apple I Booted Up a Tech Revolution

With only a circuit board, keyboard and tiny, blurry monitor, the circa 1975 computer looks crude by today’s standards

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Check Out These Vintage Computer Viruses at the Malware Museum

Relive the horror of watching your computer catch a ‘90s-era virus

Google's New AI Can Beat Human Champions at the Game of Go

Google appears to have won the long race to develop a Go-winning artificial intelligence, considered a major step towards more human-like AIs

Iranian men play a soccer video game at a CD shop in Tehran June 10, 2006.

Inside Iran’s Budding Video Game Industry

The Iranian video game industry, shaped around piracy and economic sanctions, is slowly growing

Missouri Mathematicians Discover New Prime Number

At more than 22 million digits, it’s the longest prime yet

Watch 100 Drones Dance Their Way to a World Record

The swarm recently took to the skies to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Washington State Has Released up to 3,200 Inmates Early Thanks to Computer Glitch

The software bug has been miscalculating release dates for 13 years

Old browsers: the bowl cuts of the internet.

These Old-School Internet Browsers Are Like Real-Life Time Machines

A new tool lets you experience the glory—and embarrassment—of the internet of yore

Army ants really know how to take the road less travelled.

Army Ants Act Like Algorithms to Make Deliveries More Efficient

The marauding ants know just where to place living bridges to create shortcuts without sacrificing their food-gathering prowess

Was this article written by a data-driven word processing machine...or a robot?

The Robo-Journalists Are Coming

But did a machine write this story?

The IceCube Lab with a picture of neutrino data superimposed

The Search For Elusive Neutrinos in Antarctica Generates Massive Amounts of Data

The IceCube observatory at the South Pole collects roughly 36 terabytes of data a year in the search for 'special' neutrinos

New Software Makes Cyberbullies Think Twice

Teen programmer Trisha Prabhu created a program called ReThink to make cyberbullies reconsider before posting cruel messages

How the Tetris Theme Song Was Made

A small piece of hardware produced the iconic sounds of gaming

Screenshot from "Live Texturing of Augmented Reality Characters from Colored Drawings" video

Thanks to Augmented Reality, These Coloring Books Come to Life

The new technology takes 2D pictures and turns them into 3D magic

Scientists Can Now Sequence a Human’s Genome in 26 Hours

New tools cut sequencing time almost in half

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This Interactive Installation Rains a Poem Down on Viewers

Artists Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv wrote the software that drives an artwork, in which onlookers catch letters falling on a large screen

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